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It is my special privilege today to introduce our guest. It is Beth Seidenberg, who is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caulfield, and Byers. She's been there since 2005. And before that, she was the chief medical officer at Amgen, which is the world's largest biotechnology company. She also has a lot of experience in other biotech companies, but as a student, she studied

initially anthropology and biology and then went to medical school.

She's going to tell us some really interesting stories about how to get technology out of the lab and into the world.

Thanks, Beth.

Thank you, Tina. Thank you, Tina.

Well, thank you everybody, and it's great to be here,

and I understand I'm the finale for this class.

So I have a lot of opportunity here to maybe tie things together for you.

I have a prepared set of slides and a talk that I'd like to review with you,

which includes a case study about a company we started with technology here out of Stanford in 2007.

And before I get started and go over my prepared remarks,

what I'd like to do is ask whoever wants to volunteer any topics

that you want me to cover.

I'm a venture capitalist.

I've been in operating roles in biotech companies,

and there may be things that you want to hear about today

that I don't have prepared remarks for,

and I'd love to make sure I covered them.

Yes.

I'd be interested in hearing about your thoughts

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